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G. SEELMAN, JR. BOOK COVER. APP L|CATION FILED AUG.28.1914.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915:

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GEORGE SEELMAN, JR., 0F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BOOK-COVER.

Application filed August 28, 1914.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE SEELMAN, J12, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of lVisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Book-Covers, of which the following is a description, ref erence being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a book, such as a bank pass book, with a transparent portion or window in the cover thereof permitting the name of the owner on the fly leaf of the book to be seen from the outside without necessitating the opening of the book.

ank pass books are subject to frequent handling and unless well bound are apt to become worn and present a poor appearance. This has led to the practice of covering such books with leather or a high grade imitation of leather, but with such a cover it is found impracticable to write the name of the owner of the book on the outside thereof where it may be readily seen without opening the book, this being desirable at the time of presenting the book to have a bank deposit entered therein and at the time of selecting the book from numerous others on returning it to the customer after balancing the account. The difficulty has been overcome by forming an opening in the front cover of the book and covering such opening with a transparent material such as celluloid. The present invention relates to a particular manner or means of attaching a celluloid covering in place over such an opening in the cover of the book whereby the operation of manufacturing is greatly facilitated and the celluloid or other transparent material is firmly secured against accidental dislocation.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the transparent cover as herein claimed and all equivalents.

eferring to the accompanying drawings in which like characters of reference indicate the same parts in different views, F igure 1 is a plan view of a book constructed in accordance with this invention and having a corner portion broken away to show the details of construction; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the book before the sheet of transparent material is inserted therein; *ig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view through the book cover on the plane of line Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. 26, 1915. Serial No. 859,028.

33 of Fig. l, the thickness of parts being exaggerated for clearness of illustration; and, Fig. 4 isa plan view of the sheet of transparent material and its attached flaps of securing fabric.

In these drawings 10 indicates the book proper of which the fly leaf is seen contain ing the name of the bank customer or the party owning the book, and 11 is the cover of the book which may be made of leather or suitable imitation of leather or of any other desired material. The intermediate sheet 12 of the front cover section is out along a line parallel with the upper edge and a short distance therefrom and along a line parallel with the outer edge and also a short distance therefrom, the latter cut extending from the former cut to near the bot tom of the cover, and the main portion of the intermediate sheet 12 of the front cover is not pasted down with suitable adhesive at the time of making the cover as usual, but is left unattached as shown in Fig. 2, only the lower portion and the marginal portion outside of the cut lines referred to being pasted and having the edges of the cover material turned over thereon. Likewise the inner face sheet 13 of the cover, which is bound to the book section 10 by the stitching as usual, is left unpastcd until the transparent material is inserted for covering the opening 14 which is cut through all portions of the cover including sheet 12 and the inner face sheet 13.

The book 10 is secured to the inner side of the cover 11 by applying adhesive to this side of the cover on the portion which forms the rear cover section and securing the rear face sheet of the book thereto, the fror face sheet 13 forming a contimiation of this face sheet of the book.

A transparent sheet 15 of celluloid or the like material of a size sufliciently larger than the opening 14 to overlap the edges thereof has strips of securing fabric or other pervious material 16 stitched to its upper and lower edge. The securing of these strips of fabric 16 to sheet 15 is done by folding over a portion of each strip of fabric adjacent one edge and stitching through this folded portion and the sheet 15. This results in forming smooth edges where the fabric is joined to the sheet 15 and adjacent the opening 14. Paste or suitable adhesive is then placed upon the inner side of the front cover adjacent the opening 14 therein and the intermediate sheet is folded back.

' The sheet of transparent material with the strips attached thereto is now placed in position upon the inner side of the cover, the fabric affording a suitable surface to which the adhesive on the cover will adhere. The celluloid itself will not adhere to the adhesive. The inner side of the intermediate sheet 12 is then coated with adhesive and is then passed down onto the flaps of the securing fabric, and the inner side of the cover. The out side of the front face sheet 13 is also covered with adhesive and pasted down upon the intermediate sheet 12 to give the cover a finished appearance and to complete the fastening connection between the book body and the cover. The openings in the intermediate sheet and the front face sheet register with the opening in the cover so that a neatly appearing opening in the front cover protected by a transparent covering of celluloid or other transparent material is provided through which the name on the front fly leaf may be read without opening the book. 7

' The invention thus exemplifies a book cover having an opening therein protected -by a piece of transparent material which material is securely held in place by strips of flexible material, such as fabric, to which adhesive will adhere and thus overcome the difficulty which has been experienced in the use of celluloid as the transparent material.

'What I claim as my invention is:

1. The combination, with a book cover having an opening therein, of a sheet of transparent material positioned over said opening, strips of fabric, means passing through said transparent material and fabric for securely connecting said fabric to said material, adhesive for securing one of the sidesof said strips of fabric to the inner side of the cover, backing having an opening registering with the opening in the cover, and adhesive for binding said backing to the cover and to the othersides of the strips of fabric. 7

Copies of this patent may be obtained for 2. The combination, with a book cover having an opening therein, of a sheet of celluloid positioned over said opening in the cover, means for securing said sheet in position comprising strips of pervious material stitched to the edge of said sheet and adhesive for binding said strips to the inner side of said cover, a backing having an opening registering with the opening in the cover, and adhesive for binding said backing to the cover and said strips.

3. The combination, with a book cover having an opening therein, of a sheet of transparent material positioned over said opening, means for securing said sheet in position comprising strips of fabric having one of their edges formed of a plurality of thicknesses of material, stitching passing through said edges and said sheet and adhesive for binding said strips of fabric to said cover, a backing having an opening registering with the opening in said cover and adhesive for binding said backing to said cover and strips of fabric.

4. In a book, the combination with a book cover having an opening therein, of a sheet of celluloid positioned over said opening, means for securing said sheet to said cover comprising strips of fabric stitched to the edges of said sheet and adhesive for binding said strips to said cover, an intermediate sheet secured to said cover having an opening therein registering with the opening in said cover and a lose flap formed therein adjacent said opening, adhesive for binding said loose flap to said fabric and cover, an inner face sheet having an opening therein registering with the opening in said cover and adhesive for binding said inner face sheet to said intermediate sheet.

In testimony whereof, I aiiix my signature. in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE SEELMAN, JR.

Witnesses:

'Ennnsi SEELMAN, WM. H. HOWARD.

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